ILRLR 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Labor Relations Board
27 Jan 2018
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The only way unions can regain their strengthen and provide a counterweight to corporate power is if liberals join the fight. Republicans taking out their adversaries on public employee unions. Low union density = lower ability to win strikes. Workers are more educated and productive, they lack power. Share of jobs grow at the bottom and vanish at the middle. Court decisions are symptoms of labor"s decline -- not it"s cause. We focus on raising the bottom but not on how to stop wealth from concentrating at the top. ** unions need to stop wealth and power from concentrating at the top. Need to get serious about democratizing and winning greater control over capital. Fortunes/interests of union members and their communities are linked. Percent of private sector employees who are union members rapidly decreasing. Nlrb expanded the number of joint employers in america.
